"Here you are at last." Her voice buzzed, like millions of bees given speech. "I'm shocked that Ironhorse had such a problem with you, but then again, he's so old. Past his usefulness, I'd say. You will now have such an easy time with me."

"Who are you?" growled Ash. Puck moved beside him and together they formed a living shield in front of them. The lady giggled, like a mosquito humming in your ear, and held out a green-nailed hand. "I am Virus, second of King Machina's lieutenants." She blew Lin a kiss. "Pleased to meet you, Linna."

She warily takes a step back.

She stays behind Lin, her hands shaking as she begins to take control of the trees around them. "Lin, don't move..." She mutters.

"What have you done to these people?" Puck asked.
"Oh, don't worry about them," Virus twirled in place, smiling. "They've just caught a little bug. These little bugs, to be exact." She held up her hand and a tiny insect swarm flew out of her sleeve to hover over her palm like sparkling silver dust. "Cute little things, aren't they? Quite harmless, but they allow me to get inside a brain and rewrite its programming. Let me demonstrate." She gestured to the nearest human and the man dropped on all fours and started to bark. Virus tittered, clapping her hands. "See? Now he thinks he's a dog."
"Brillant," Puck said sarcastically. "Can you make him crow like a rooster, too?"

This makes Lin even more wary, and she takes another step back.

She loses concentration, she glares at Lin. "Don't move!" She snaps, trying to gain control of the trees again as she continues to move with Lin.

Something clicked in Ash's head. "You were the one that set the chimera loose on Elysium."

"Why, yes, that was my work." Virus looked pleased, though her face fell a moment later. "Although, as an experiment, it didn't quite work out as I'd hoped. The normal fey doesn't react well to my bugs. The whole aversion to iron thing, you know. It drove the stupid beast mad and probably would've killed it if it hadn't been sliced to pieces. Mortals, though!" She pirouetted the air, flinging out her arms as if to embrace the crowd. "They make wonderful drones. " And with that, she snapped her fingers and the mob shambled forward again, arms reaching. "Bring me the girl," she ordered as the circle tightened around them. "Kill the rest."
Ash drew his sword

She tries to flee.

She finally gains control of the trees, using most of her energy to do so as they all suddenly form a wide circle around the small group. She suddenly grabs hold of Lin, a vine wrapping around Ash and puck as they are lifted up into a tree. The large trees protecting them begin knocking the weapons out of the people's hands, the earth swallowing them up as Claire jumps up with the other three in the branch. She was using all of her energy on this.

The circle tightened around them and Puck said, "I suggest we run," and with that, he pulled something from his pocket and tossed it at the crowd, and it exploded into a log, pinning two startled zombie men to the ground, creating a hole in the ring around them. "Let's go!" Puck yelled. And then they got pulled up into the tree